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Beyond the Equivalence Principle: Gravitational Magnetic Monopoles

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2021-12-20 v1

Abstract

We review the hypothesis of the existence of gravitational magnetic monopoles (H-pole for short) defined in analogy with the Dirac's hypothesis of magnetic monopoles in electrodynamics. These hypothetical dual particles violate the equivalence principle and are accelerated by a gravitational field. We propose an expression for the gravitational force exerted upon an H-pole. According to GR ordinary matter (which we call E-poles) follows geodesics in a background metric. The dual H-poles follows geodesics in an effective metric.

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@article{arxiv.2104.11063,
  title  = {Beyond the Equivalence Principle: Gravitational Magnetic Monopoles},
  author = {Mario Novello and Angelo E. S. Hartmann},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2104.11063},
  year   = {2021}
}

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9 pages